catchers (baseball)

In "Blockade Billy," a retired coach recounts the story of "Blockade Billy" Blakely, the only player to have his record erased from baseball history, and in "Morality," an elderly minister recovering from a stroke offers to pay his home care nurse a large sum of money if she will commit a criminal act.

Provides information about the role of the catcher on a baseball team, discusses the skills needed and the dangers of playing behind the plate, and includes photographs and brief profiles of star players in the position.

Mudders' catcher Rudy Calhoun is having a bad season behind the plate until, at a yard sale, he buys a used catcher's mask that greatly improves his playing.